Summary: Ingrid lithe, beautiful, and married to an up-and-coming architect, is a woman contending with the recent loss of vision. While attempting to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days reconstructing the visual world by writing salacious stories that slowly morph into fantasies about her husband and other characters that may or may not actually exist. When real-life crashes into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLISummary: Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery - A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KimStim 2015
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Summary: "A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era." -- back of container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Franck takes an internship in Human Resources at a factory where his father works. When Franck's efforts to better the company lead to the firing of many employees, including his father, a furious confrontation ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HUMSummary: Tells the heartbreaking story of Nak, a devoted and loving wife whose affection for her husband Mak is quite powerful. Separated by war, Mak finally returns home to find Nak has given birth to a son. The reunion seems idyllic until Mak gradually awakens to the horrifying truth that both his wife and child died long ago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NANSummary: Using 'shock therapy' as a metaphor, the film investigates Naomi Klein's central idea of 'disaster capitalism.' When countries are jolted by catastrophic events such as war or natural disasters, they are often subjected to totally unregulated 'free market' remedies that benefit corporations at public expense.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KimStim, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHOSummary: Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEEGraham, Heather
Summary: Desperate to escape her kidnappers, Kody Cameron can turn to only one man, and he's holding a gun. Outnumbered and trapped in the deadly Everglades, she has little recourse, but something in this captor's eyes makes her believe she can trust him. Does she dare to take the risk? Undercover agent Nick Connolly has met Kody before and knows she might very well blow his cover. Though determined to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Graham 2017Tubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: Twelve-year-old Viviani Fedeler, proud resident of the New York Public Library, has her sights set on becoming a star reporter. She's thrilled when Miss Hutch announces a story contest where the winner gets their essay printed in the New York Times! But then Viviani gets her first-ever case of writer's block. As she struggles to find inspiration, the library is hit with a strange mystery...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBContents: Introduction / Jean Houston -- A nation of seekers / Mark Robert Waldman -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse -- There's no place like home / L. Frank Baum -- A city of churches / Donald Barthelme -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- Jonathan Edwards -- Brother Jake and the Preacher / Lorraine Johnson-Coleman -- The problem of Old Harjo / John M. Oskison -- I...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 SEEContents: Introduction : three views of the shadow / Robert Bly -- Touching our darkness through stories and art / Mark Robert Waldman -- Ruplestiltskin / Anne Sexton -- The monster never dies / Stephen King -- A dark fable / Joyce Carol Oates -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Not with a bang / Howard Fast -- In a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 SHADetroit Institute of Arts
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 AmeSummary: A World War II veteran is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BLUWarren, William W. (William Whipple)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 1984
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.3 WARSummary: During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Classic Movies 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GLASummary: Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: You'll learn practical solutions for getting delicious and nutritious meals on the table, every night. Whether your family is in the mood for fish, chicken, pasta, beef or even vegetarian, you'll find something for everyone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.54 MARSummary: In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. It is a satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOJBucchino, John.
Summary: An illustrated version of John Bucchino's song of giving thanks and celebrating the gifts of life. Music at the end of text.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J BLUE GRAChristie, Agatha
Summary: A collection of stories by the renowned mystery author featurs bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations, and murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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Summary: "The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020